Note On AEW Attendance Figures For First Six Months Of 2026

The first half of 2026 is over, and a new report has an update on AEW’s attendance figures over the last six months compared to the year before. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the company has had an average attendance of 3,716 per show. That’s up 2.3% from the first half of 2025, where the average attendance was 3,634.

The report notes that AEW has generally been running smaller places for TV tapings, which means more sell-outs but lower attendance for TV. AEW Dynamite attendance is down 4.7%, while Collision is down 12.6%. Collision has also run in the same city as Dynamite several times, which makes for lower draws as well.

On the flip side, AEW PPVs are up in attendance from 9,264 for the first half of 2025 to 11,267 for 2026 thus far, which results in a 21.8% increase. A bit difference is the markets being run, which are larger in some cases like New York and Los Angeles. This weekend’s AEW Redemption is likely to lowee the average, while All In’s expected approximate 40,000 will be up big from last year’s show in London that did 17,000.

AEW Redemption takes place on Sunday in the Bell Centre in (as mentioned) Montreal, Quebec and airs live on PPV AND HBO Max in the US, and MyAEW internationally.